DECEMBER (CHRISTMAS)

Inside, Dad watches them,hands pocketed,leaning forwards at the window,as if listening for their secrets.

Aileen McKay recently graduated from a Comparative Literature MLitt at the University of Glasgow. She says, 'I’m an optimist, activist, and street photographer. Glasgow adopted me six years ago after I left behind the sleepy, salty seaside village in the north of Scotland that I did the first part of my growing up in. Nowadays, I work as an English tutor with a feminist agenda. Above all, I am a keen advocate for radical kindnesses — big and small, towards friends and strangers, in private and in public — in our noisy, modern world.'